Legal education isn’t just about scholarship. At Berkeley Law, it’s also about action—especially on issues as urgent as global warming—with students driving vital climate work across campus.
Fellow Candice Kim was honored by East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice in their 6th Annual Fighting For Life Celebration, which recognizes the work of social justice fighters that have been at the forefront with communities demanding an end to environmental racism. The event was held June 6 in Los Angeles. Read more about the honorees
Kelly McClure (she/her/hers) is an incoming Heyman Public Interest Fellow at the White House, where she will serve as a Special Assistant within the Executive Office of the President. In May of 2021, Kelly will receive her Juris Doctor...
Janae Davis is an Associate Director of Conservation at American Rivers. She works to promote the health of the rivers, riverside lands and river communities in North Carolina and South Carolina to ensure clean drinking water supply, reduce...
Lourdes Vera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Department of Environment and Sustainability at UB. As an environmental sociologist and civic scientist, she works with communities living near oil and gas...
Juan Reynoso is an urban planner and public health professional who specializes in health equity and environmental justice. He has a diverse range of experience in healthy communities planning across the public, private, and non-profit...
Melissa is an Assistant Professor in the School for Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She is an interdisciplinary marine conservation scientist, writer, and equity practitioner dedicated to...
Zully Juarez provides research and analysis of environmental justice policies to Just Solutions Collective. With the direction and input of BIPOC frontline policy practitioners, she works to identify, research, review, and analyze existing...
Dr. Frances Roberts-Gregory is a feminist political ecologist and environmental anthropologist. Her activist scholarship interrogates how Gulf Coast Black and Indigenous women within Louisiana's river and bayou parishes navigate...
Dr. Brittani R. Orona is a Hupa environmental, public humanities scholar and an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at University of California, Davis. Prior to joining Davis, she was an UC President's and Andrew W. Mellon...
